First edition of the Becher’s first major photobook with black-and-white photogravure plates. Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions. TITLE: Anonyme Skulpturen – Anonymous Sculptures. A typography of technical constructions. BY: Bernhard and Hilla Becher PUBLISHED: , Art-Press. Text in German, French, and English. After meeting as students in Düsseldorf, Bernd and Hilla Becher began systematically photographing the buildings of the .
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Bernd and Hilla Becher
Here we have the lime-kilns, skulptufen towers, blast-furnaces, winding-towers, water-towers, gas-holders and silos of industrialised Western Europe categorised into prototypes of the pot, the oven, the chimney, the winch, the pump, and the laboratory. Hardcover, cloth bound with dustjacket, black and white photographs of lime-kins, cooling towers, blast furnaces, winding-towers, water-towers, gas-holders and silos.
For the viewer it is a game of comparison and awareness that encourages them to return to their own environment with fresh insight. Eine Typologie technischer Bauten. All their books are polemical, but this represents their primary artistic credo.
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Don’t miss my updates and news on photobooks bechef register for free – or follow my updates on the virtual bechee on facebook. Often they waited for days for the required flat non-expressive light so that each structure could be recorded in the same highly-standardised manner, a manner that alludes to earlier traditions in German photography.
Anonyme Skulpturenthough it hardly neglects the informational importance of skuopturen practice, seems much more about making an aesthetic statement and establishing the artists’ position in late twentieth-century art. For those who are more interested in the Bechers as artists than as industrial archaeologists, this is the one to have on one’s shelf. I n the monograph Anonymous Sculptures the conceptual artists Bernhard and Hildgard Becher grouped clinically shot large format black and white images of uniform but non-identical structures in a way that exposed the differences and the similarities of these structures in a compelling way.
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